HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.
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Contents Description..............................................................................................................................4 Update recommendation...........................................................................................................4 Supersedes..............................................................................................................................4 Operating systems and devices...................................................................
Description HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) version 7.1 centralizes network connection management and workload mobility for HP BladeSystem servers that use Virtual Connect (VC) to access local area networks (LANs), storage area networks (SANs), and converged network environments. VCEM helps organizations increase productivity, respond faster to workload and infrastructure changes, and reduce operating costs. Update recommendation HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager version 7.
NOTE: Keep in mind that some VC features are not validated or replicated by VCEM. For more information, see the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.1 User Guide available at http:// www.hp.com/go/vcem/ Fixes The primary objective of this release is to support the latest HP hardware platforms, support the latest revisions of already supported operating systems and hypervisors, and to fix software issues.
rather than requiring that all domains are updated at the same time. VC firmware compatibility mode accomplishes this by suppressing new features that are not supported by the domain group firmware mode. There are limitations on the VC firmware levels that can be made compatible by using VC firmware compatibility mode. For the VCEM 7.1 release, VC firmware versions prior to 3.15 cannot be made compatible with VC firmware version 3.50 or later.
Using Expanded VLAN capacity with the Complete VC domain Maintenance operation Before enabling Expanded VLAN capacity for a VC domain during Maintenance Mode, make sure the VC domain group that the VC domain belongs to is running firmware mode 3.3x or later. If you change a VC domain to Expanded VLAN Capacity and the Virtual Connect domain group firmware mode is lower than 3.
For the latest information on these online help changes, see the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.1 User Guide available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs. For more information For more information about VCEM see the following documents at http://www.hp.com/go/ matrixoe/docs. • HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager 7.1 User Guide • HP Insight Management Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface 7.1 User Guide • HP Insight Management 7.
